Name: John Pressly Miller
Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 10-31-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; absent wounded through 12-31-1864
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Notes: Surrendered Appomattox 04-09-65
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Sharpsburg, neck ; Cedar Creek, shoulder 10-19-1864 - 9/17/1862
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Laborer, age 33, Natural Bridge District, Rockbridge Co.; farmer, canal engineer, and carpenter
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Near Lexington
Date of Death: 8/12/1916
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Burial Place: Broad Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Fancy Hill
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